An Interlude with Mittens

Thursday, September 04, 2008

After finishing the Ravelympics Cinnamony and before continuing with the green Tailored cardigan, I feel like taking a break with some smaller project. I was going through my Ravelry stash over the summer, putting up pictures of pictureless stuff, even the leftover skeins (yes, I'm anal that way), and noticed that I had lots of small balls of different colors in this worsted-weight yarn. Colors I wouldn't normally wear on their own but might just work together in some small accessory. Like mittens.

I'm not really into the whole Latvian mitten or Selbuvotter thing, maybe because I haven't tried it myself. And most of those patterns are for fingering weight yarn anyway. I'm not really experienced with stranded knitting so I better start small, or big, as it were. I did find some great worsted-weight patterns, picked one, played around with the colors a bit and voila: Burning Hearts Mittens.

Project: Burning Hearts Mittens (Ravelry)
Pattern: Heart Mittens (Ravelry) by Ansku
Yarn: Novita 7 Veljestä in black, orange and red
Needles: 3.5 mm dpn's
Mods: picot edge; omitted the ribbing and instead did three repeats of the first heart pattern (with the middle row mirrored); black MC all through the mitten; 2 CCs (red and orange)

And I totally get the infatuation with stranded knitting now. It's so mesmerizing watching the picture emerge little by little, row by row. I want more!

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